| In Memory of Stephanie Elizabeth Condon |
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| The night before Halloween 1998, 14-year-old Stephanie Condon was babysitting twin two-year-old girls at her aunt's house in Myrtle Creek, Oregon. It would be the last time anyone would see the high school student alive.
Cops say sometime during the evening, Condon disappeared. When a relative returned home at 1:30 am, the twins were accounted for and unharmed, but Stephanie was no where to be found. The residence showed no sign of forced entry and neighbors reported to cops that nothing they heard seemed out of the ordinary during the course of the evening. The front door was locked and the television and lights were left on. Also, Stephanie's backpack, containing her homework, clothes, money, and shoes, was left inside the home. For the last nine years, authorities have searched high and low for clues as to Condon's whereabouts, but have come up with few leads. At the time of her disappearance, she was 5'2", weighed 120 lbs, and was reportedly wearing Winnie the Pooh pajamas without shoes and a white t-shirt. The honors student also had a small scar above her left eye. Authorities viewed Dale Wayne Hill as a possible suspect in Condon's case. He was 28-years-old at the time and told police that he had seen Stephanie while she was babysitting on the night she went missing. Hill had once dated Stephanie's aunt and told detectives that he had stopped by that evening to see her. Hill denied having harmed Stephanie and he was never charged with any crime relating to her case. He was imprisoned in 2004 on a robbery charge and was later paroled. Douglas County Sheriff's Office still considers Dale Hill a person-of-interest. Furthermore, police note that a .38 caliber snub-nosed revolver that belonged to Hill was never found during the investigation. Detectives believe that finding the weapon could be a means to unraveling the mystery surrounding Stephanie's disappearance. Cops say that an Aztec-themed comforter was also missing from Hill's residence around the time that Condon went missing and maintain that this is another element that could help to find her. On Mar. 13, 2009, a man hiking in the Gilde, Ore. area discovered human remains that were later identified as Stephanie Condon's. |